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A’s Hired New Bench Coach

October 24th, 2007

The A’s moved a little bit closer to filling out their 2008 coaching staff with yesterday’s hire the new bench coach Don Wakamatsu. The coach comes from the Rangers taking the place of Bob Schaefer that was let go after 1 season.

Don Wakamatsu, is 44 years old and he is a Hayward native. He grew up attending A’s games during the early ‘70s. Wakamatsu spent the past 5 seasons with the Texas Rangers, 4 of which as bench coach and the last one as 3B coach.